From two fiddles and an accordian, the strains of Mallow Fling as the first thistle seeds drift out towards the folly on the hill. In search...

Notes of a piano piece by Faure wind a trail along overgrown pathways, through the french doors with their wood-framed windows, into the pos...

. "The labyrinthine corridors of the Albert Hall...," says the radio voice, setting the scene for tonight's Prom concert. I...

. In a dark recess of the local museum, stuffed birds—bittern, heron in dusty glass cases—reminiscent of exhibits in the museum of my childh...

. Most paintings of such views are two thirds sky and one third sea, but this one fills the canvas almost to the measure near the top with d...

. At the top of a twenty first century glass tower views all around and a window as far back as I can see: this 1940s 'Children's Pa...

. Someone on the end of a phone line 24/7. Open to visitors 10 a.m.–9 p.m. You don't have to be suicidal. The nineteenth century buildin...

an interview with Diana Webb . DW: Describe your life, Bill, before you discovered the world of Zen and haiku. BW: Born 1942, the first of...

. He tells me how a fellow patient used to call the walk to the room where they carried out electro-convulsive therapy, the Via Dolorosa. My...

. A sunken blob of paint marks the centre of the football pitch, almost spot on where Turner created a watercolour of the old churchtower, w...

. 'The Butterfly House closed last year,' someone tells us. So Beachyhead becomes the focus for this late spring day instead. 'I...

'All in the April evening' ― 'By the banks of green willow' Our chosen cherry tree the one most open to the blue evening sky...

A stiff photograph in sepia tones of a young Victorian woman in a dark high-necked dress with leg-of-mutton sleeves, her hair upswept; my gr...

. Waiting for a chow-mein ― across the road the last horse chestnut leaves flap bedraggled, a few buds gleam... Always it seems I'm wait...

I often sit in cafes watching people of the town go by. People with shopping trolleys, wheelchairs, kids in buggies, white sticks, dogs... I...